i really like this distro. it runs fast as heck on a gateway solo 1150. BUT, i cant get this wireless card to work..

it works in xp, and it works perfectly with Kanotix live cd.

none of the puppy drivers will make it show up as a wifi device. i have downloaded the realtek .tar.gz file for this device, but have had no success doing anything with it. I probably don't know how to use it either.

the card was Compusa brand, but it came with Realtek software, and XP reports it as a Realtek rtl8185 wireless LAN card.

please help me out.. puppy is the ideal distro, but i need to get my wireless running.

Actually, just to clear up, it worked good but just didn't have the wifi range of my other computers. In the same spot, All others ran fine but this one always went down to a low 1 mbs & slow connection. Closer to the wifi router, she hummed.

So only fiddled with it a bit in puppy & at some point had a connection, I'm not sure if the same card as yours (i'm assuming laptop) but i'll check it out.

jonyo wrote:

Had some realtek (forget which one..) crappy card on this Gateway mx 3410.
Ended up swaping it out.

hi gents..
well, i noticed that there is a newer version of puppy. it has the drivers i need for the realtek 8185, so i tried it.
sure enough, the card shows up as wlan0, i see my network, then i go to configure wep..
darn it, i cant get wep set up.
RutilT is what got puppy configured on a desktop i have. but when i try to use it in this later puppy version, RutilT complains that it needs to be run as root.
i thought puppy always ran as root. someone please help me on this.
i'm almost there, but not quite.

Not sure what pup ver ya runnin.? I got live cd 2.14 on this desk & wep is A-ok. No root stuff probs happenin for me.with rutilt . Never had a root scenario either with 2.12-3 or 4 live cd so dunno what it may be about in your setup.

A belated note. I'm running puppy 4.3 on an CPQ Armada M700 P3 notebook with a PCMCIA Digitus card. I found that the driver in puppy failed. Using this driver it talked to the hub but was consistently disconnected. However the driver from the Digitus site works when loaded with NDISWRAPPER. I'm using WPA(1) encryption. I had the same experience with puppy 4.2.1 so no related change in 4.3. What a really good facility in the puppy network wizard to be able to blacklist the original driver, I've not seen that before. Best, munichjohn

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